After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
All charges have been dropped against Kneecap’s Mo Chara.
I strongly welcome this decision.
These charges were part of a calculated attempt to silence those who stand up and speak out against the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Kneecap have used their platform on stages across the world to expose this genocide, and it is the responsibility of all of us to continue speaking out and standing against injustice in Palestine.
In our insanity, just with there being no stream and for the sake of those that maybe can’t make the game, me and @MKBurke1 will do a live audio commentary here of the Derry minor final between Loup and Dungiven, starting at 6pm*
*provided all goes well and we don’t fall out
3,500 people were killed during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, which lasted for 30 years
Israel has killed at least that many people every single month—for 21 straight months
Genocide
Hannah, a paediatric nurse: "A lady.. 30 wks pregnant, she came in after being in an explosion in her tent, & shrapnel.. cut through the unborn baby.. the baby had been cut through its abdomen & legs & did not survive"
UK politicians & media: death to the IDF is hate speech
"Mo Chara’s real problem is that the message he put out landed. Working-class people aren’t meant to speak like this, organise like this, or connect struggles across borders like this. That’s what scares them.
While Mo Chara stands in the dock for allegedly waving a flag, those complicit in a genocide walk the streets untouched. Since October 2023, over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza – entire families erased, journalists targeted, children bombed in their beds.
More than 300 officials at the Foreign Office raised their concerns about Israel’s “stark … disregard for international law”. And yet, the UK government continues to greenlight arms deals and offer diplomatic cover. That’s not a performance. That’s a conscious policy decision. Made in Westminster, paid for by the taxpayer, and buried beneath silence.
They’ve tried this before. Give Ireland Back to the Irish – banned. Christy Moore – detained. The Pogues’ Streets of Sorrow – silenced for decades. And now, it seems to be Mo Chara – for turning protest into poetry, politics into art.
So here’s the question – the same one Pete Seeger asked, the same one Mo Chara asks now: Which side are you on?
👉https://t.co/qeb3usgoNl
50 years from now, when our grandkids ask who were the leaders who took a principled stand against Israel to bring an end to the Gaza genocide, we'll have to pause for a moment and then answer Greta Thunberg, Ms Rachel and a rap band called Kneecap...
Producing two world class pieces of quality with all those other stars on that pitch including his international midfield teammate who often steals the limelight. Against the usually inevitable Champions League animals. This was a legendary performance for the history books.
Eric Cantona :
" If Gaza is over this time the world is inevitably over. The world developed its way of murdering , its greediness grew and its desecration of innocents has extended .
If Gaza doesn't make it this time this mean that victory is for the most violent , and the most barbaric "